started again we came one and a quarter miles over rich downs very much
overrun with roley-poley. As we had been getting too far away from the
river we steered towards it, and having reached water in two and a half
miles we encamped. The country we passed over last consists of
well-grassed downs. In the water we got plenty of mussels which made an
agreeable addition to our rations. Distance today seventeen and a half
miles by the following courses: 11.50 east-south-east seven miles; 12
south one and a half miles; 1.16 east-north-east one and a half miles;
2.40 east-south-east four and a quarter miles; 3.30 east-north-east two
and a half miles; 3.45 north-east and by east three-quarters of a mile.

March 15. Camp 26 situated near a creek named by me Sloane Creek, at a
point about three miles south-east from Bramston Range.

Started this morning at 8.15. Having come one mile and a half we reached
a small hill bearing 2 degrees 84 minutes from the south-west end of
Bramston Range and 50 minutes from table ranges up the river. On this
hill Jemmy and I stopped for some time and then proceeded after the main
party. Following their track led us over rich, high, unwooded downs for
five and three-quarter miles to a creek with a shallow broad channel.
This stream evidently flows towards the river. I named it Walker Creek.
After crossing Walker Creek we came over high downs for about twelve
miles, and having found water we encamped. Towards the river the country
is wooded with a kind of myall, but not the drooping acacia. Amongst it
the horses have gone to feed in preference to the open country. The
ground on this side of Walker's Creek is composed of a reddish soil with
occasionally detached pieces of basalt. It is covered with the best
grasses, the highest portions thinly wooded with small trees, amongst
which I observed white-wood, myall, and Port Curtis sandalwood. The Port
Curtis sandalwood has been exported, but as far as I have been able to